ABSTRACT
On moving to England, Freud wrote a new will; he arrived in London on June 6, 1938, and the will is dated July 28, 1938. There is nothing surprising in this action, since in a fresh legal jurisdiction he needed a new instrument to take appropriate care of his estate. He was already eighty-two years old and had had cancer of the jaw for more than fifteen years. It does seem to me remarkable that although the will has been readily available since being probated, it was locked away by the Freud Archives. It should be scrutinized by those expertly knowledgeable in such matters if historians are going to understand properly the significance of Freud’s last testament.
